PS239: Path Dependance of Economic Development

Zenan Wang
11/30/2016

Data

  • Grand Secretariat Archive Project
  • NOAA Nighttime Lights Time Series (2005)
  • China County Shapefile

Scraping Website with Python

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Example

Cleaning Biography Data in R

  • Extract GPS information and perform GIS spatial manipulation

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Cleaning Biography Data in R

  • Spatial Aggregation to County Level

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Visualize Night Light Data in R

  • Night Light in 2005

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Visualize Night Light Data in R

  • Aggregate night light data to county level

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Regression

  • Regression

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